Two persons are being questioned after they were tricked to get US visas – 20th Feb 2013

Two persons who said they were tricked into handing over large sums of money for US visas are being questioned by local Police who were reportedly called in after the plot was discovered.

Local law enforcement agents escorted a man and a woman from the US embassy in Georgetown just after 2 this afternoon and taken into Police custody after the Police were called in.

They reportedly gave up their passports to 2 strangers and turned up at the embassy to collect the passports with the visas in them, but this was not to be. They were questioned by embassy officials and local Police and then taken to Police Headquarters, Eve Leary.